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 Posted: 03/05/05 - 23:13 Post subject: Blow up or Blow over?
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My question is ...think this will blow up or blow over?
| Quote: | ROME, Italy (AP) -- Veteran Italian secret agent Nicola Calipari -- who won the freedom of captive journalist Giuliana Sgrena -- was a practiced hostage negotiator who had already helped bring home two Italians kidnapped in Iraq.
At least once before, Calipari reportedly had come close to negotiating Sgrena's release.
He had gone to Baghdad once before, convinced he would leave with the 56-year-old writer for the left-wing newspaper Il Manifesto, but left empty-handed, according to the news agency ANSA.
It finally happened Friday, when Sgrena was handed over to Italian officials after a month of captivity in the hands of Iraqi insurgents. But the happy occasion quickly turned sour when the car taking Sgrena, Calipari and other agents to the Baghdad airport was fired upon at a U.S. checkpoint.
Calipari was killed as he threw his body across Sgrena, in what she said was an attempt to shield her from the bullets.
Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi awarded Calipari with the gold medal of valor Saturday for his heroism.
Across Italy, fans observed a moment of silence in tribute to the agent before the kickoff at soccer games.
"He was an extraordinary man. Getting to know him, I became certain that Giuliana would come home," Sgrena's boyfriend Pier Scolari told ANSA.
Sgrena was abducted February 4 by gunmen who blocked her car outside Baghdad University.
News of Calipari's death brought grief to other former hostages and their relatives.
"Nicola Calipari was a beautiful person, a simple person. He was the person who freed me," Simona Torretta told ANSA on Friday as she left the home of Calipari, where she had gone to pay her respects and meet with his family.
The aid worker was held hostage in Iraq for three weeks with her colleague, Simona Pari, before Calipari negotiated her release September 28.
"We are very sorry, we owe these people so much," said Pari's father, Luciano Pari. "He's a person who worked very well."
Minister of the interior Giuseppe Pisanu visited Calipari's home to express his condolences and described the agent as "the most true and human hero of this tormented story."
Calipari, 50, was married and had a 19-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son.
He originally was from the southern city of Reggio-Calabria in the toe of Italy across from Sicily, but had never worked there.
He was a 20-year veteran of the police force, and before moving on to Italy's secret services he had headed the immigration office for Rome's police.
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kbarr
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Posted: 03/05/05 - 23:49 Post subject:
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Go post in the f*g forum.
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ATM Banana
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Posted: 03/06/05 - 07:31 Post subject:
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I thought this WAS that forum.
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Frax
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Rennol
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Posted: 03/06/05 - 18:05 Post subject:
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This looks like a shitstorm
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Confused
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Posted: 03/07/05 - 14:15 Post subject:
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If Italy hadn't secretly gone behind the US's back to PAY for the release of their hostage then try and run through a roadblock (when US soldiers were not notified about this) then maybe this wouldn't have happened. Morons.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050307-120131-5769r.htm
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Vekril
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Posted: 03/07/05 - 14:35 Post subject:
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Also notice that she is a 60 year old reporter for Il Manifesto, the COMMUNIST newspaper. She was against the war, hates America, hates capitalism and hates pretty much everything we stand for.
How the hell would she know whether or not the US targetted her intentionally? Was she in the US chain of command? She sounds more like someone who is taking any chance she has to make the US look bad. As Confused said, if the Italians were not sneaking around behind our backs paying off terrorists (and thereby encouraging MORE kidnappings) then this would never have happened.
Lest anyone forget, she is a f*****g communist. Berlusconni should have left her there to rot with her comrades in arms.
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sinrakin
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Posted: 03/07/05 - 15:13 Post subject:
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It seems extremely unlikely that they deliberately targeted her. More just a case of lack of concern for anyone's lives but their own.
This article about the checkpoints is pretty interesting: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0307/p01s04-woiq.html
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Vengar_OO
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Posted: 03/08/05 - 17:36 Post subject: -==-
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She has an agenda.
Will no doubt exploit the situation to further that agenda.
You'd think she'd just be happy to get out of there alive.
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Someone
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Posted: 03/08/05 - 21:31 Post subject:
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If it was an assasination attempt, she would be dead. There would be no story, and she would be reported as killed by her captives in some dank pit hole. Both sides are responsible for what happened. An otherwise silent brave man died, and a somewhat 'louder' reporter lived.
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